The world's most chaotic 50-lane motorway is so busy it turns into a car park
China's 50-lane motorway is every commuters nightmare with some even branding it "carmageddon".
China has taken rush-hour traffic to another level as hundreds of millions of people have found themselves caught in a standstill on one of the world's most bizarre looking roads.
Thousands of motorists have been stuck on the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway, which resembles a 50-lane car park in photographs taken of the madness.
In 2015, thousands of drivers were stuck while driving back home after a week-long national holiday.
The main cause of the severe congestion appears to be a checkpoint built the same year that reduces traffic from 50 lanes down to just 20, according to The People's Daily.
Thousands of cars were stuck for hours after the then newly installed checkpoint forced traffic to merge down to 20 lanes.
It created a bottleneck that backed up traffic for miles, the People's Daily reported.
A drone also caught stunning aerial footage of the massive gridlock.
China, with a population of 1.4 billion, is known for its bad traffic and busy public commutes.
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In 2010, there was a gridlock stretching over 74 miles between the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Beijing, which left drivers stranded for an astonishing 12 days.
To pass the time, people played cards while nearby vendors seized the opportunity to sell food and water at inflated prices.
At the time, one person told he Inner Mongolia Morning Post: "If you said 'no' or complained about the price they threaten to break your [wind]shields."
Again, in 2012, the government's decision to grant free road travel during the same national holiday turned 24 motorways in 16 provinces into a massive parking lot with more than 85 million people stuck in their cars.